rolling twenty-something RYM/internet stuff like hyperpop, hypnagogic pop, hexD, vaporwave, dungeon synth, cloud rap, nightcore, black midi, future funk, dariacore, seapunk, blown out anime voices, br

there's no rock in there, so i'd say it's pretty distinct from mag bay even if they do draw from similar aesthetic inspirations

Yet another hit from DDS. Getting more of a prog vibe from this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azB_8kjIUuw

wow that's incredible, hope there's an album on the way that'll include all of the singles from this year

omg go off dds

this feels like the lansing-dreiden software update we didn't know we needed, so sick

this is good as hell

now that is how you drop a beat

I've been so impressed with these guys lately. not just the new stuff but exploring the back catalogue as well. my local shop had one of their 2014 albums called Virtual Utopia Experience and I found it to be very nice and completely unclassifiable. like total spacey dreamland music but there's a lot of acoustic guitar picking in it?? idk if the people here will dig it but it hit me in such a strange way

anyway, new album is gonna rule and I hope it sells a ton

my favourite from their back catalogue is heavy black heart which is probably the peak of vaporwave as a genre, though they put out a ridiculous amount of material exclusively via their mixtape club which i haven't kept up with at all

yea it's great and I hope it gets a reissue soon

idk how many people can really keep up with the mixtape stuff but Faith in Persona is particularly good. I mean really it's just Keith Rankin solo and spiritually it should be considered the next Giant Claw album but I think they just do everything through the dds umbrella now. whatever. it's great. Transcendence Bot is also great if you like head-in-the-clouds dds

faith in persona is one that actually did get a wider release but i need to go back to it because it didn't stick with me at the time

Hm, this doesn't do it for me at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Eyi-zWQZo

https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/track/this-time

Would be remiss of me to not mention the new Stabscotch here too, given it'll likely be my aoty

https://urradioangel.bandcamp.com/album/prison-jar

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wow at that dds track

enjoying p much everything posted recently but especially the stabscotch

https://eljenvaporworks.bandcamp.com/album/--70

for those that enjoyed ran cap duoi last year, this was a good read

https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/vietnamese-experimental-scene-report

basically all the new music i hear these days comes from rym's "featured reviews"

it's kinda weird... maybe worth considering? like i don't want to start another thread on 4chan, i've never been on 4chan and i wouldn't touch it with a pole even if i still had one, but at the same time a lot of rym culture does feed from /mu/. it's a secondary source, a _filter_ for /mu/. and what it filters out of course is a huge chunk of the toxicity. i don't, i guess, i don't _get_ wet leg.

RYM is cool, v much worth using it to discover new music (as I do). Don't go for featured reviews though, go for yearly charts, which you can customise in all sorts of ways

Toxicity tends to meet with resistance on RYM

oh when i was in my peak music binge era, circa 2018, i lived off rym's charts and lists. the lists are a great resource - i find an obscure weird album, see what lists it's on, and go see what else is on those lists. i just literally haven't had time for music. there was _one_ message board, too, where people just posted new albums that had very few reviews - that was my go-to thread. the rest of the boards, though, them i didn't click with.

and yeah the mods there, they're good mods, they don't put up with any 4chan shit there. you can still see it in the way that the hyped transfem records... like, folks there don't dig on 100 gecs or tami t or nothing like that. it's all dysphoria gang over there as far as i can tell.

Oh of course, you do all those reviews lol. When nobody else rode for that Dissociatives album, one alone stood to represent

most of my rym reviews are from my/rym's shitpost era, one of the things i _really_ love is that they've gone through the effort to unpublish my crappy meme reviews that don't meet their current review standards so that nobody has to see that crap anymore. writing shitty record reviews in the late '00s definitely helped me a lot as far as becoming a better writer.

i do love the dissociatives record, but then again i'm a sucker for anything with mellotron on it :)

Oh I love it too lol, it has some of the greatest cod-psych excess ever recorded. Second and second-last tracks especially never leave my head.

RYM DOES unpublish pretty readily, doesn't it? I've had a few of my own one-liners zapped. The fact they have any standards at all is a great positive, even if they let some fairly dubious stuff survive (probably because people don't care enough to flag it up)

lol those are my best reviews

Always curious about their unpublishing policy. Still far too many joke one-line reviews with +35 likes at the top for my liking :((

that wu-lu is quite something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2T963FYU0

announce the album already!

so excited for this album

this is so good!

https://www.100percentelectronica.com/collections/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife/products/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife-cd-pre-order

it is announced

it gives me a sense of ENORMOUS well-being

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX--cgEWQAAlE3r?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

It’s been a while since I’ve had that surefire “this’ll be AOTY” feeling

yeah i’m with map, really don’t get the enthusiasm for this.

ftr i wasn't commenting on any music specifically, it was just a badly considered general meme shitpost

honestly "Neon Memories" is the first thing I've heard that sounds like what I imagined pop in 2022 would have sounded like back in 1997

Okay I listened to Neon Memories on my studio monitors and it’s pretty great, not exactly my cuppa but I was into it! sorry for doubting, I just didn’t remember liking any of the stuff from the new one

just sounds like "Life in a Northern Town" with glitch to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xlUgAalQ7I

loving this album

Oh, that's cool! She seems to be getting more bonkers every time I dip into her stuff.

the whole 4s4ki album (killer in neverland) is great, i think it's her best yet

oooh, this opening track is supremely promising

gr8 album

new fievel is glaque ("go down softly" is new, i'm pretty sure i've heard "the river" already). more like fievel is yacht, amirite?

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/go-down-softly-the-river

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNcSUqM9Cw